Tower Dominion GO vs DEADGRID
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tower Dominion GO
Defend your empire from alien invasions by strategically shaping the battlefield and deploying unique factions and heroes. Adapt your defenses with post-wave upgrades in this endlessly replayable roguelike tower defense game.
- Build enemy paths and terrain
- Unique factions with distinct biomes and towers
- 10 heroes per faction with unique abilities
- Post-wave upgrade selection
- Unlockable content and secrets
- Multiple difficulty levels and modes
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Your empire faces relentless invasions from the savage Artronids, threatening its very existence. As Commander, you are the last line of defense against the deadly enemy onslaught. In this endlessly replayable experience, every battle presents fresh challenges with unpredictable outcomes. Build the ENEMY PATH Take control of the battlefield by shaping the very ground your enemies march on. Expand and modify terrain tiles to create choke points, forcing enemies into lethal artillery fire or luring them into carefully laid traps. Height and pathing are your greatest weapons—use them wisely to dictate the flow of battle and secure victory. Factions & HEROES Each faction brings its own arsenal to the battlefield, featuring unique biomes, towers, and strategies. Their distinct playstyles shape how you build defenses, deploy units, and control the fight. With 10 unique heroes per faction, each possessing their own strengths and abilities, there are always new tactics to discover and strategies to master. Adapting to WARFARE War is unpredictable, but true Commanders adapt. After each wave, select from a set of upgrades and rewards to reinforce your strategy. Assess enemy strengths and weaknesses, adjusting your defenses to counter their advance. No two battles end the same way, as each new tile placement forces you to plan one step ahead. Endless DISCOVERY There's a wide variety of content to unlock as you progress through the game. Heroes are earned through achievements, building upgrades are discovered, and the Codex is packed with secrets to uncover. With four difficulty levels, an endless 'Frontier Mode', and every playthrough offering new challenges, Tower Dominion provides a highly replayable experience. Survival depends on constant innovation and adaptation. Every alien wave is a unique combination of Artronids that will test your ability to adapt. Are you ready to employ innovative tactics, build impregnable defenses and hold the line? Commander, your troops await your orders! Play Tower Dominion GO for FREE and WITHOUT ADS! Play as much as you want, without any restriction. Then you can unlock the full content of the game with 1 single in-app purchase. No timers or virtual currency required!
DEADGRID
Experience intense arcade zombie survival with endless waves and permadeath. Master an arsenal of 33 weapons, strategically deploy defenses, and choose dynamic upgrades to conquer the apocalypse. Customize your survivor and enjoy pure, optimized gameplay.
- Endless zombie waves
- Permadeath runs
- 33 unlockable weapons
- Strategic deployables and turrets
- Dynamic upgrade system
- Four zombie types with advanced AI
- Customizable survivor skins
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DEADGRID is a minimalist zombie arena shooter — pure, intense arcade action with real multiplayer. THE CLIMB A campaign ladder thousands of levels deep, and no two rungs are alike. Every level rolls its own horde, its own weather, its own rule and its own goal: one-hit-point runs, total blackouts, meteor storms, assassination contracts. Two modes break the pattern — INFECT, where you ARE the outbreak and hunt the survivors down, and FREE FOR ALL, where everyone carries the same gun and only one walks out. 1,080 WEAPON FINISHES Thirty collectable liveries — GOLD, ONYX, SYNTHWAVE, NOSFERATU, VOIDLINE, RAINBOW and more — across all 36 weapons. Every third rung of the Climb pays one out. Locked finishes stay secret until you earn them. TWELVE HANDCRAFTED ARENAS Fight through Times Square, Shibuya Crossing, the Champs-Élysées, Copacabana, Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal, Chichén Itzá and Terreiro do Paço — plus four arenas of our own: The Garden, Sporewood, Rustyard and Cindermaw. Lava rivers, container mazes, neon crossings. Every layout is placed by hand, never generated. SURVIVE THE APOCALYPSE Endless waves of the undead. Every run is permadeath — beat your best in kills, waves and time survived. RANKED 1v1 — THE ARENA Duel real opponents in last-one-standing combat. Buy rage zombies and send them hunting your rival, earn a random upgrade every round, and climb 8 divisions to the top of the global ladder. DUO CO-OP Team up with a friend or matchmake with a stranger. Shared horde, shared glory — revive each other and see how deep two survivors can go. ARSENAL OF 36 WEAPONS Pistols, SMGs, shotguns, rifles, snipers, launchers, energy weapons, flamethrowers and wilder things — each with its own 3D model. Loot weapon crates mid-run and build your loadout on the fly. NINE ZOMBIE TYPES Walkers, runners, tanks, boomers, jumpers that vault your walls, fire-spitters, bladesmen who cut bullets from the air, gaolers with hooked chains and summoners who raise the dead. Smart pathfinding routes them around cover — they hunt, they don't just shamble. TURRETS & DEPLOYABLES Three turret types, barriers, claymores, explosive barrels and the legendary clapping monkey. Build choke points, then watch the horde walk into them. PROGRESS THAT LASTS • GAME PASS: a 101-tier season track with exclusive skins, chests and emotes • MISSIONS: endless ladders that pay pass XP with bonus chests on every claim • SPECS: permanent lifetime upgrades that make every future run stronger • 42 SKINS to unlock — from the humble Rookie to floating war gods • 32 EMOTES to talk trash in style COMPETE WITH THE WORLD Global leaderboards, a top-1000 board, friends list with live presence, duo invites and player profiles. Daily streaks keep your fire burning. PURE PERFORMANCE Optimized for smooth 60fps. All game audio is synthesized in real time — zero audio files, tiny download. Free to play. Endless waves, thousands of levels. Just pure arcade zombie survival. Any coin pack removes ad breaks forever. Download DEADGRID and see how long you survive.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: DEADGRID at free against Tower Dominion GO's free with in-app purchases. DEADGRID also leads on review sentiment (92% vs 70%) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). Tower Dominion GO's advantage is ratings volume (292 vs 53). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Tower Dominion GO sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and DEADGRID sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Tower Dominion GO against 4.8 for DEADGRID. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tower Dominion GO has 292 ratings behind it against 53, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 70% of Tower Dominion GO's written reviews are positive against 92% of DEADGRID's.
Tower Dominion GO ships an update every 5 days, DEADGRID every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tower Dominion GO | DEADGRID |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (292 ratings) | 4.8 (53 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.1% of reviews | 92.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 292 — better | 53 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 611 MB | 384 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Nvizzio Creations | Afonso Quinaz |
Customer experience
Tower Dominion GO
DEADGRID
In-app purchases
Tower Dominion GO
- Full Game$9.99
DEADGRID
- Scrap$0.99
- Cache$4.99
- Crate$9.99
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- Pallet$19.99
- Container$49.99
- Motherlode$99.99
Questions
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